Toby will give up his job (which he loves), family and friends to move to Melbourne without even visiting it.

I'm not even sure how well he do with communication. I'm sure the stronger Aussie accent will confuse him. His average English will no doubt cause a few problems for employment here too.

One of the options we discussed is me going back for a year or two allowing me time to discover whether i want to do my masters, allowing him to learn from his new role and improve his English.

It will only be for a few years because while HK is great while i am young, its not somewhere i want to live forever. Besides i just couldn't do it to my family whereas he is not very close with his family.

Whatever happens there will be some huge sacrifices from both parts.

Its such a struggle to be together but one i'm not willing to give in to without a huge fight.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Lucky in somethingIts never been a better time to be me dating wise or so it seems

In addition to my friend throwing himself at me (see below)

i also had another friend end the friendship because well its just 'too hard just being friends' with me

and i got a text message from a guy i dated (by dated i mean one perhaps two dates) almost four years ago (who i haven't spoken to since) inviting me out. He actually named the movie (meet the parents) we watched so i would remember.

But of course the one i want is far far away. I still haven't made up my mind about going back and in fact he has offered to move to melb if i don't. Either way though neither of us can continue doing this long distance thing for much longer.

The decision has been madeI will try to learn Cantonese rather than Mandarin. Despite the fact that everyone tells me to learn mandarin for various sensible reasons including: it only has four tones instead of nine(therefore much much easier), and is spoken by more people in more places. Even the Australasian Centre of Chinese Studies states 'In general, we recommend you learn Mandarin unless you have a very specific reason to learn Cantonese. '

What's my specific reason?

because i'm nosey, basically i want to understand all of Toby's conversations (without him having to translate for me).

Anyone know where else apart form ACCS to learn Cantonese at a beginner level at a low cost?